Faviola Martinez de Estrada
Faviola Martinez de Estrada
Institute on Community Integration
University of Minnesota, MN
Faviola Martinez de Estrada was born in Veracruz, Mexico, and she graduated in 1992 from high school with a technical college degree in Nursing. She moved to U.S. in 1998, and she has six children and one grandson. Her second oldest child is a young man with a disability. She serves the community as an early education and disability trainer, a community coordinator, and she is one of the co -founders of La RED Latina de Educacion Temprana Minnesota. In her Diversity Disability Fellowship year, Faviola plans to gain more knowledge and skills to advocate for families and to motivate her community. She is thankful to the Fellowship funders for believing in her.